Like, how do people get music on their phones and iPods? Do they buy every single song? I want to listen to music and have music on my phone, but I have no idea how to get it. Spotify works when I'm on my computer, but I don't have a premium account so I can't listen to song on-demand on my phone. What do I do?

Though this does work, I'd like to mention that buying music on something like iTunes/Amazon always provides higher quality. It doesn't really matter if you only use earbuds because those are low quality to begin with, but there is a noticeable difference if you listen to your music in the car, on a speaker system, or with actual headphones.

Also, I actually prefer to buy all of my music to support the artists, but I'm sure watching their Youtube videos helps as well, so...whatever works for you.

Now, of course, to have the song titles and stuff you have to rename them but that's up to you. After you download it drag the downloaded files onto iTunes, plug in your iPod and it'll load them from there.

You can buy it, or download it from some website called "thepiratebay". Which I've never done, but I heard you can use that and another thing called "utorrent" to get music onto iTunes. But I've neeeeeverrrrrrr done that. Not ever. ;)

I buy my music off Google Play or use my Google Play All Access subscription (like Spotify) to listen. Most teenagers these days use torrents to illegally download them which is kind of the norm now. I don't do it just so all my stuff is perfectly organized with pretty much no effort.

If you're going to torrent or obtain music through some other method, please for the love of god get your songs in 320KBps quality. The difference in quality between a 96KBps song and a 320KBps song is staggering once you listen to it. I find that it's worth the effort and time to obtain a 320KBps copy rather than a crappy 96KBps copy via a YouTube converter

1: Assuming you have a Google account, download the Google Music Manager for Pc.

2: Direct it to your computer's music folder. What this does is automatically upload any songs in that folder to Google Music.

3: Download the Google Music app for android (assuming you have android). Now your phone has instant access to your music library.

But that just explains how to manage your music. Here's a couple ways to GET it.

1: youtube-to-mp3.com It's made by a Redditor, and all you have to do is put in the Youtube URL of the song you want. Problem with Youtube downloaders though, is that they aren't the best sound quality.

2: Torrent. Get uTorrent, and go to thepiratebay.sx . Search for the song you want (In my opinion you might as well get the whole album though, because it's a good way to pad your music library and TPB doesn't always have single songs.)
Then download it. (make sure uTorrent is pointing at your music folder)

So why Torrent? Why not just use a Youtube downloader? Well, it's going to be better sound quality for starters, but the main reason is that the audio files include album artwork, as well as extra details. (artist, genre, album, release date, track #). This is good because it means you don't have to manually type all that stuff in.

But yeah, that's how I get music. I hope you take my advice, because I truly believe it is the best way to handle music.